Smokers in India are a menace. Apart from
the rare one who take his trash with him, most
Indian smokers trash the place around
them.With the
absence of such comprehensive measures, the
Union Minister's noble goal of controlling
smoking and improving the health of the nation
will go nowhere says Aravind Sitaraman

Indian politicians seem to forget that
there is a difference between politics and
governance; enemy and political rivalry; those
who serve for political power and those who
serve the nation in the bureaucracy, services,
security, investigative agencies, and police.
One cannot ask for a sea change in attitude of
politicians overnight but can we at least norm
as a nation in how we behave and work with each
other? asks Aravind
Sitaraman

Ancient Indian
dynasties documented their administration,
significant developments, grants, and milestones
as inscriptions in temples. The Archaeological
Survey of India (ASI) has documented these
inscriptions from 1886.

The
Jataka tales has an interesting story of blind
men feeling different parts of an elephant and
arguing that what they feel is what they say. As
an old Tamil saying says that "what you see may
not be the truth; what you hear may not be the
truth; what you conclude by sheer logical
reasoning is the truth." In an environment where
most people are either blind, trained to be
blind, want to believe in being blind, and where
being blind is fashionable, the perspectives
that we see are many while the bigger point is
lost.